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...<div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Whether or not Ramsland spoke with Trump pre-insurrection, the fact that he is, per the Post, a Cruz donor as well as a Trump donor; someone whose first client was an “associate of Steve Bannon”; co-founder of ASOG with a Flynn associate; and a man who successfully lobbied top <b>Trump congressional ally Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX)</b> to use his services underscores that if he was in the Willard war room on January 5 the number of Trump associates who may have been there, nearby, or in contact with the war room is considerable</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Beyond the obvious figures, others written about at Proof but with less frequency may also be in the picture with respect to the Willard war room. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">The Post reports that one apparent investor in Ramsland’s efforts to spread election conspiracy theories prior to the 2020 election was </span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Charles Richard Saulsbury, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the fabulously wealthy Texan whose son </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Bubba Saulsbury was with Mike Pence at the vice presidential mansion on the night of January 5</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">as exclusively reported by Proof. If a Ramsland investor was with Pence while Ramsland was at the Willard, is it possible that any phone- or video-conferenced strategy session that evening involved not just the Trump International and Willard Hotel war rooms but both the White House and vice president’s mansion? We can’t, at present, know this.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> But we do know that Bubba Saulsbury—who’d come to D.C. thrilled about marching to the Capitol—saw or heard something on the evening of January 5, while with Pence, that caused him to flee Washington the next morning to avoid all of the events of January 6. What had Bubba Saulsbury heard, and from whom?</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">{Note: Saulsbury’s Facebook photos indicate he was staying at Trump International Hotel.}</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Post reports that, during the time<b> Ramsland may have been receiving investments from the Saulsburys</b>—in 2019 and beyond—everything he did “became about getting to Trump. He had this idea [that] it [his plan to challenge elections Republicans had lost] had to get to Trump.” This doesn’t sound like a man who would have sat at the Willard on January 5 without making any attempt to get in touch with the president.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Indeed, the Post reports that “In July 2020, ASOG gave a two-hour briefing to seven members of the House Freedom Caucus</b>”—</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">possibly the same seven Freedom Caucus members who five months later would be in the Oval Office discussing an allegedly stolen election with Trump: Gosar, Brooks, Biggs, Gohmert, Gaetz, Greene, and Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA). Certainly, Trump was well aware of Ramsland by mid-November of 2020,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> with the Post reporting that “late on November 15, Trump retweeted to his millions of followers a video clip of </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Ramsland saying in a pre-election interview that votes from twenty-nine states were routed through ‘a server in Frankfurt, Germany’ and that [Spanish election systems company] Scytl ‘controls and reports your vote.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">’”</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>But Ramsland’s connections to key insurrectionists go well beyond these, to include ex-Trump legal adviser Lin Wood and Giuliani cybersecurity adviser Phil Waldron</b>. T</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">he Post writes that “Ramsland contributed material to [Sidney] Powell’s lawsuits and to one brought by L. Lin Wood Jr., another pro-Trump lawyer, seeking to overturn Biden’s victory”, and also that “Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel who specialized in psychological operations and is now chief executive of a cybersecurity firm…said he was working with ASOG to examine the 2020 election.”</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Even former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, a participant in the unprecedentedly wild December 18 meeting at the White House, is tied to Ramsland. </b>Per the Post, “By December [2020], Ramsland was opening doors for people seeking to challenge the election results. He connected Patrick Byrne, the billionaire former CEO of the online retailer Overstock, with Powell, and Powell connected Byrne with Giuliani.”</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So if Eastman was with Ramsland in the second Trump war room on Insurrection Eve, did Ramsland’s associates Ellis, Gohmert, Byrne, Bannon, Wood, Powell, Saulsbury, Sessions, Waldron, Giuliani, or Flynn join them there at any point on January 5 or 6?</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(2) Eastman was in the Oval Office on January 4 in a previously unreported meeting.</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to the ex-law professor, on January 4 three people met in the Oval Office with him and Donald Trump: Pence, Pence’s chief of staff <b>Marc Short,</b> and Pence’s general counsel Greg Jacob. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Per Eastman, prior to the meeting someone had advised Trump that “law review articles” written about the 2000 election indicated that “maybe the Vice President had unilateral authority to determine the validity of electoral votes.” Presumably it was not Eastman who provided such erroneous counsel to Trump, as Eastman says that during his meeting with Trump and Pence, </span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Pence asked Eastman if he believed vice presidents had the authority that Trump had been advised they had, and Eastman purportedly told Pence it was an “open question.</b>” But per Eastman, he nevertheless told Pence it would be “foolish” to accept the alternate slates of electors the Trump campaign had had sent to D.C., as none had been certified by any state legislature. Eastman says he advised Pence to “delay the proceedings [in Congress]” in “response to the [GOP] state legislatures” that wanted time to “audit” their votes.</span></div></div>